A couple nights ago my friend Andre and I were messing around with MIDIviaNet, he was tapped into my Korg X5DR.

What the heck is MIDIviaNet??? It’s a cool little app that allows you to connect to a MIDI device over the Internet!

How does that work? Well, MIDIviaNet only sends/revieces MIDI data, not actual audio. In order for Andre to hear the sound that was coming out of the synth from across the Atlantic, we used a really long Dixie-Cup Phone…

…what?

Ok, we used TeamTalk! What does that mean? The short version is, Andre plays music from his place, I hear it “live”, and then he hears it a few seconds later because of the various delays involved in the process of sending the TeamTalk audio. So to do this and play anything coherent requires a fair amount of work knowing how to keep your timing! Or you can have a ‘substitute’ sound respond to you live at the “player’s side”.

Anyway, what follows is the result of all that.

I also made a quick remix/song from one bit which is pretty cool. Enjoy!

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Today I thought I’d record some of the on-board demos from some of my synths. I got my old Yamaha PSR-530 keyboard to work, I thought it was broken! It appears that the plug for the DC transformer on the keyboard is busted. I recall never trying to test it with batteries, I kind of forgot it had a battery compartment. Low and behold, I put in 6 D-size batteries and it powers right up! I’ll have to take it apart at some point and see if I can replace the DC-in plug and repair it. So for now, here are some synth demos. Enjoy!

Note: Don’t forget to use the ‘next’ and ‘previous’ buttons in the player! 🙂

Roland D-110 On-Board Demo Songs:

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Yamaha PSR-530 Demo Songs (Some on-board, some from cartridge)

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Korg X5DR On-Board Demo Songs

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